Yury Dmitriyev’s term increased to 15 years on charges supporters say are punishment for exposing Soviet-era crimes
On Monday, a court in the city of Petrozavodsk extended the historian’s sentence at the prosecutors’ request.Dmitriyev spent decades locating and exhuming mass graves of people killed under Stalin’s rule and set up a memorial to them in the Karelia region of the north-west of Russia.
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